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title: This was the age of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, of Shakespea… — Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation · tree and pragmatics
description: This was the age of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, of Shakespeare writing plays for London's Globe theatre, of Elizabeth I's ships beating the Spanish Armada, and of Suleiman the Magnificent ruling the mighty Ottoman Empire. Who acts: This, ships, Suleiman. A sentence of the lesson «Printing, t
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# Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation, sentence 3

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This was the age of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, of Shakespeare writing plays for London's Globe theatre, of Elizabeth I's ships beating the Spanish Armada, and of Suleiman the Magnificent ruling the mighty Ottoman Empire.

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**Who acts:** This, ships, Suleiman · **What happens:** be, beat, ruling · **To what, where:** age, Spanish Armada

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, ships, Suleiman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:3
# text = This was the age of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, of Shakespeare writing plays for London's Globe theatre, of Elizabeth I's ships beating the Spanish Armada, and of Suleiman the Magnificent ruling the mighty Ottoman Empire.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Leonardo	Leonardo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	da	Da	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Vinci	Vinci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Michelangelo	Michelangelo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Shakespeare	shakespeare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	Globe	Globe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Elizabeth	Elizabeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
27	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Armada	Armada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
36	Magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
37	ruling	ruling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	Ottoman	ottoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | the age |  |  |  | of Leonardo and Michelangelo; of writing plays for London's Globe theatre  I's ships | tree rules |
| 2 | **beat** | gerund | I's ships *not said here* | the Spanish Armada and the Suleiman |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent armada=Patient empire=Result |
| 3 | **ruling** | gerund | the Suleiman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:3`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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